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Regulation 47 No set-off where insolvency procedure appliedF1I1

United Kingdom

(1)

Neither regulation 45 nor 46 shall require any such amount as is mentioned in paragraph (1)(b) of those regulations (in either case, “the credit”) to be set against any such sum as is mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) of those regulations (in either case, “the debit”) in any case where—

(a)

an insolvency procedure has been applied to the person entitled to the credit;

(b)

the credit became due after that procedure was so applied;

(c)

the liability to pay the debit either arose before that procedure was so applied or (having risen afterwards) relates to, or to matters occurring in the course of—

(i)

the carrying on of any business; or

(ii)

in the case of any sum such as is mentioned in regulation 46(1)(b), the carrying out of taxable activities,

at times before the procedure was so applied.

(2)

Subject to paragraph (3) below, the following are the times when an insolvency procedure is to be taken, for the purposes of this regulation, to have been applied to any person, that is to say—

(a)

when a bankruptcy order, winding-up order, F2... or award of sequestration is made in relation to that person F3or that person enters administration;

(b)

when that person is put into administrative receivership;

(c)

when that person, being a corporation, passes a resolution for voluntary winding-up;

(d)

when any voluntary arrangement approved in accordance with Part I or Part VIII of the Insolvency Act 1986f1, or Part II or Chapter II of Part VIII of the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989f2, comes into force in relation to that person;

(e)

when a deed of arrangement registered in accordance with F4... Chapter I of Part VIII of that Order of 1989 takes effect in relation to that person;

(f)

when that person’s estate becomes vested in any other person as that person’s trustee under a trust deed.

(3)

References in this regulation, in relation to any person, to the application of an insolvency procedure to that person shall not include—

(a)

the making of a bankruptcy order, winding-up order, F5... or award of sequestration F6or that person entering administration at a time when any such arrangements or deed as is mentioned in paragraph (2)(d) to (f) above is in force in relation to that person;

(b)

the making of a winding-up order at any of the following times—

(i)

immediately upon F7the appointment of the administrator ceasing to have effect;

(ii)

when that person is being wound-up voluntarily;

(iii)

when that person is in administrative receivership; or

(c)

the making of an administration order in relation to that person at any time when that person is in administrative receivership.

(4)

For the purposes of this regulation a person shall be regarded as being in administrative receivership throughout any continuous period for which (disregarding any temporary vacancy in the office of receiver) there is an administrative receiver of that person, and the reference in paragraph (2) above to a person being put into administrative receivership shall be construed accordingly.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Regulations disapplied in relation to Scotland (with effect from 1.4.2015) by virtue of Scotland Act 2012 (c. 11), ss. 31, 44(2)(b)(3)(c); S.I. 2015/638, art. 2 (with saving in S.I. 2015/599, arts. 6, 7)

Regulations disapplied in relation to Wales (with effect from 1.4.2018) by virtue of Wales Act 2014 (c. 29), ss. 19, 29(2)(b)(3)(b); S.I. 2018/214, art. 2(b)

F2

Words in reg. 47(2)(a) omitted (15.9.2003) by virtue of The Enterprise Act 2002 (Insolvency) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/2096), art. 1(1), Sch. para. 67(a) (with art. 6)

F3

Words in reg. 47(2)(a) inserted (15.9.2003) by The Enterprise Act 2002 (Insolvency) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/2096), art. 1(1), Sch. para. 67(a) (with art. 6)

F4

Words in reg. 47(2)(e) omitted (1.10.2015) by virtue of The Deregulation Act 2015 (Insolvency) (Consequential Amendments and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1641), art. 3, Sch. 3 para. 3(4) (with art. 10)

F5

Words in reg. 47(3)(a) omitted (15.9.2003) by virtue of The Enterprise Act 2002 (Insolvency) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/2096), art. 1(1), Sch. para. 67(b)(i) (with art. 6)

F6

Words in reg. 47(3)(a) substituted (15.9.2003) by The Enterprise Act 2002 (Insolvency) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/2096), art. 1(1), Sch. para. 67(b)(i) (with art. 6)

F7

Words in reg. 47(3)(b)(i) substituted (15.9.2003) by The Enterprise Act 2002 (Insolvency) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/2096), art. 1(1), Sch. para. 67(b)(ii) (with art. 6)

Commencement

I1

Reg. 47 in force at 1.8.1996, see reg. 1

Footnotes

f1

1986 c. 45.

f2

S.I. 1989/2405 (N.I. 19).

Notes on the whole SI

Textual amendments

F1

Regulations disapplied in relation to Scotland (with effect from 1.4.2015) by virtue of Scotland Act 2012 (c. 11), ss. 31, 44(2)(b)(3)(c); S.I. 2015/638, art. 2 (with saving in S.I. 2015/599, arts. 6, 7)

Regulations disapplied in relation to Wales (with effect from 1.4.2018) by virtue of Wales Act 2014 (c. 29), ss. 19, 29(2)(b)(3)(b); S.I. 2018/214, art. 2(b)